Inside The Black Mist

Chapter 1003: Supply station

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The ship left the sea well channel, but because of the boosters, it flew into the air, with a drop of at least 20 meters from the sea surface.

What's even more terrible is that the ship is now in an almost vertical position, and after the boosters are turned off, it will fall straight down!

Fortunately, at this time, several flames shot out from the front of the ship, which adjusted the landing posture of the ship and made it fall horizontally. At the same time, small stacking aids on both sides of the ship sprayed flames to slow down the fall.

Even so, when the ship fell into the sea, it still caused a shake, but at least the hull did not fall apart.

After Akai's ship crashed into the sea, it quickly floated up and finally stopped on the sea surface.

At this time, Ah Kai took out a cigarette, lit it and put it to his lips: "Everything is okay."

"It's okay." Tian Yang had just finished speaking when he saw Long Dan next to him pick up a paper bag, come forward, and retch.

Moonlight shook her head and said, "You are like this, yet you still have the nerve to say that you have been in the Deep Sea Castle for a while. Luckily there are no outsiders here today, otherwise, I will tell you that you are really embarrassed."

Longdan waved his hands, indicating that he didn't have the energy to compete with the moonlight. After he finished vomiting, he leaned back in his chair and sat for a while before his face showed some color.

After the ship of the 'Mercemen Association' came out, A Kai put away the wide metal prys on both sides, started the propeller at the stern, and steered the ship towards the vast sea.

Seeing that the ship was sailing smoothly, Tianyang and the other two unbuckled their seat belts and went to the deck to get some fresh air.

Longdan took a few deep breaths of the sea breeze and recovered: "I'm telling you, I'm not exaggerating, I'm not afraid of anything. There is no place I can't go, whether it's the sky or the sea."

"But I really can't handle this 'sea well'. Every time I pass by it, I have to vomit. But I'm not afraid, I just can't adapt to it."

Moonlight patted his shoulder, shook her head and laughed: "Don't explain, you are just afraid. Next time, I will knock you out and call you when I come out."

"What are you laughing at? I don't believe that you have nothing to fear." Longdan shouted.

Tianyang looked ahead, a smile on his face, and then he saw an offshore platform. There were lights on the platform, and it seemed that there were people living on it.

As if seeing Tianyang's confusion, Longdan said, "Those are supply points at sea. You can get fresh water and fuel there. Some also provide ships and weapons, and even mercenaries."

Longdan glanced at the control room and said, "It seems that we can reach the dark sea area after passing through the 'sea well' once more, so Akai needs to resupply here, especially fuel. If there is not enough fuel, when leaving the sea well channel, we will fall back due to insufficient propulsion."

"If that happens, our fate will become the same as those shipwrecks we saw in the passage."

Tianyang then realized that the wreckage of the ship seen in the channel was caused by insufficient propulsion when leaving the channel, and was unable to sail out of the sea well. Finally, it ran out of power and fell back into the sea well.

In a place like that, not to mention ordinary people, even low-level Ascendants could die there.

You can't hitch a ride in the sea well. The ships passing by are sliding at a very fast speed under the action of inertia. This way, when the ship rises, it can slide far enough, and then use the booster to get out of the sea well in one breath.

In theory, as long as the booster is powerful enough

However, the power of the booster must also match the specifications of the ship. If a ship can escape from a sea well purely by boosters without the help of inertia, it must be a hull of a military battleship level, which can withstand the impact of the booster's flames without being torn apart by excessive force.

Soon, the offshore platform was approaching.

Several beams of light fell on Akai's ship. With the help of the light, Tianyang could easily see that the outer edge of the platform was covered with armor plates like city walls, and there were gun emplacements and watchtowers on them.

As the ship approached the platform, thick exhaust pipes on both sides of the gate spewed out thick smoke, and then Tianyang heard the sound of gears and hinges turning.

Click, click.

The thick steel station then slowly opened to allow the ship to pass through.

Watching the gate passing over his head, Tianyang felt fresh. After entering the gate, he saw a sea like an inner bay. Not far away there was a pier and a dock for repairing ships.

Looking further into the distance, the buildings on the platform are in a mess. Those houses are like a naughty child, randomly piling up large and small wooden boxes.

On the platform, we also saw a large, scrapped hydroelectric generator and large and small pipes extending deep into the platform.

It is not difficult to imagine that even if there were human beings living on this platform, the environment in which the survivors lived was not "beautiful". There was an atmosphere of chaos and disorder everywhere.

From this, it is not difficult to see how difficult it was for humans to survive in the era of great tides.

The ship arrived at Pier 7, where someone was already waiting, a short, fat man, sitting on a chair, wearing what looked like a full-body protective suit.

The light shone on his hood, revealing a fat face with a red nose.

Seeing the ship approaching, he stood up and called out through the radio next to the dock: "Akai? You're not dead yet. It's been a long time since you came. I thought you died in some sea."

The propeller stopped turning. A Kai walked out of the control room, tied the cable, and then jumped ashore and said to Tian Yang and the others, "We will stay here for about half an hour to an hour. You can walk around. I will let you know when it is time to leave."

He threw a special communicator to Long Dan, then looked at the fat man and said, "I need something."

The fat man waved his hand: "Follow me."

They talked as they walked.

Tianyang and the other two came ashore and saw the boat of the Fishman Association coming over. Longdan gestured and said, "Follow me. I'll show you around."

Moonlight glanced at him distrustfully: "Have you been here before?"

"No, but these supply points are all similar. There will be a 'market' here, and maybe a 'recycling station', so you can see some strange things and get a deeper understanding of this world."

Longdan said as he walked out to the dock.

Tianyang and Yueguang exchanged glances and followed.

Walking out of the dock and passing through a ruin, the three soon saw bright lights flashing in the distance and vaguely heard human voices.

Long Dan led the way, and as they went deeper into the offshore platform, Tian Yang realized how messy the platform was. The buildings here were not planned.

There are all kinds of materials.

There are wooden houses, brick houses, and tin houses. They are piled together like building blocks, and many houses are close together. They share a wall and look more like cages than houses.

The street is winding, and its shape is related to the layout and direction of the buildings on both sides. The usable space is never wasted, and you will occasionally pass through a wooden corridor or even a public toilet.

On the streets, sewage pipes that are half a meter wide run along the walls. The pipe walls have disappeared in many places, but there are not many people living on the platforms now, otherwise these pipes would probably emit a disgusting odor.

Soon, Tianyang saw shadowy figures on the street ahead. Judging from their attire, they were all gold diggers. They were crowded in front of a building and no one knew what they were doing.

Long Dan pointed to the front and said, "That's the recycling station that Deep Sea Castle opened on some offshore platforms, which are also supply points."

"The recycling station has professional appraisers and supervisors, and of course, strong military soldiers and officers."

"The recycling station mainly recycles the various things that the gold diggers found in the adverse world and think are valuable. Of course, whether it is valuable in the end is determined by the appraiser, not the gold diggers."

"In short, gold diggers can get rewards in the form of money, supplies, and weapons and equipment by handing in their spoils at the recycling station. But the most important thing is that they can accumulate their own contributions."

"When you have enough contribution points, you can get some rights. For example, permanent residence rights in Deep Sea Castle. Of course, if you don't plan to live in Deep Sea Castle for a long time, you can also take the things here out and sell them to other castles, and maybe make a lot of money."

They talked as they walked, and before they knew it, they were near the recycling station. Tianyang saw at a glance that there were two rows of fully armed soldiers standing in front of the recycling station, and their protective suits all had the Deep Sea Castle logo on them.

Obviously, this is a regular army, the army of Deep Sea Fort.

The army maintained order, and although these gold diggers were unruly, they did not dare to cause trouble. Although they sometimes quarreled and glared at their peers, they generally obeyed the rules.

Tianyang and the other two had nothing to hand in, so they just stood by and watched. The items handed in by the gold diggers were varied, ranging from daily necessities that were fished out of nowhere to various tools and weapons that were once used by the residents of the Reverse World.

Among them, Tianyang saw some strange guns that were hand-made and assembled. Judging from the pressure gauges on the pipes of these weapons, the weapons of the residents of the opposite world at that time were very backward. It was hard to imagine how they could fight against the black people with such weapons.

"Get out of the way, I have something good here."

"A secret book on physical training!"

A bearded gold digger squeezed through the crowd, came to the counter, carefully took out a box, and pushed it into the recycling window.

Someone nearby said disdainfully, "What's so rare about the physical training secret manual? Some people have discovered top-grade exercises. But what's the use? These things are purely imagined by people in the past of the Reverse Realm. What meridians and qi seas are all nonsense."

"It's ridiculous that those poor guys actually wanted to cultivate the power to fight against the black people through these so-called secret books."

“It’s funny, but also sad.”

"The only forces that can fight against the Dark People are the Star Essence and the Ascendants!"